Directory of Suez Canal Resources

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The Suez Canal is the artificial waterway running north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea.

Subcategories

• Suez Canal War, 1956

Resources in This Category

• BBC: UK considered cutting off Nile

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6197002.stm
  Britain drew up plans to cut off the Nile to Egypt to force a return of the Suez Canal, files from 1956 reveal.

• Story of the Suez Canal

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/1876suezcanal.asp
  Reprint from: All the Year Round, January 8, 1876; from Islamic History Sourcebook, Fordham University.

• Suez Canal

  http://i-cias.com/e.o/suez_can.htm
  Brief description and key-dates history of the artificial waterway, with several links; from Encyclopaedia of the Orient.

• The Suez Crisis: Key maps

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5195068.stm
  BBC News maps showing the strategic importance of the Suez Canal and how the crisis unfolded.

• Wikipedia: Suez Canal

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal
  Illustrated article including history, current day, and related links.

 

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